Articles for author: Sajid Hussain

Sajid Hussain

بلوچی تب چے یے؟

من 2013 ءَ کسانیں نبشتانکے شنگ کتگہ کہ اگں ترا شعرے ساڑایگی انت بگش اے شعر بلوچی تب ءِ نمائندہیں شعرے ۔اگں آزمانکے گلایگی انت بگش اے کسہ ءِ تہا ’’کارستانی نفسیات چٹ بلوچی‘‘ انت۔ اگں شاعرے یا آزمانکارے وتی شعر یا کسہانی تہا بتلی زبان کارمرز مہ کنت بزان آ چہ دری زباناں اثرمند انت ...

Sajid Hussain

Numbers, tragedies, headlines

Currently, I supervise ten trailer trucks in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. But five years back, I was a journalist with a promising future. I led a team of over 50 reporters, sub-editors and other non-editorial staff at The News International, a newspaper that touts itself to be Pakistan’s largest circulated English daily. I was rigorously ...

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The bookman goes missing

I would never be able to believe that he read all the books he bought. He bought them in dozens. Not once in a month. Almost every week. “Where can I find Kafka’s collection of short stories in Urdu?” And he would guide me to a bookshop in Karachi’s Urdu Bazar that the Google Maps ...

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منیرئے شئیر چۆن مانا دئینت

منیر مۆمن چه هما کمّێن شائران اِنت که وتی زندا په وت رندگیرانی رُمبے جۆڑی کرتگ. مرۆچی گێشترێن شائری منیرئے دابا پِر بندگ بئیگا اِنت. لهتێنَ گوَشیت که مارا پهر بندگَ لۆٹیت که ما مُنیرئے اهدا زندگ اێن. ناگمانا بلۆچیئے مسترێن شائر گوشتگ، چه اَتا شادا هم هما دێم. بله دومی نێمگا، باز وانۆک و لهتێن ...

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چُش مبوتێن

ساہجی ءَ پنچ بلوچانی مَرگ ءَ بلوچ سیاست سر ءُ چیر کُتہ۔ ہبر باز بوگا انت، لہتیں پہ دپ ءِ وشّی ءَ، لہتیں پہ مودگ ءُ لہتیں پہ سیاسی ہُنر ءُ ہیلہ۔ ہبر چِداں پاد اَتک کہ 15 مئی 2016 ءَ بلوچ ریپیبلکن آرمی ءَ پنچ بلوچ کہ کسانیں سرکاری روڑ ءِ بندگ ءِ کاراں چارگا ...

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ساہیجی ءِ شہید چینچُک انت؟

ہمے بلوچ سلاہ بنداں کہ ساہیجی ءِ تہا فوج ءِ انگّراں بوتگ انت، زانتگ کہ اے راہ کہ ما پہ وت دوست کُتگ اشی ءِ تہا مَرگ راہ ءِ سرا اوشتاتگ۔ قدیر بلوچ کہ فوج ءِ دست ءَ شہید بوتگ، آ شہادت ءِ واستا ساڑی بوتگ۔ بلوچ سلاہ بندیں جہدکاراں ساہیجی ءِ چیریں راہ ءُ ...

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‘Mother’s womb’ of Baloch militants under siege

A six-year-old girl has died in a small village of Balochistan called Zarren Bug. On Thursday morning, Sangeen, daughter of Mohammad Umer, died all out of sudden. She didn’t have any medical history. Five kilometers away from her small village, a fierce battle is raging between the Pakistan army and Baloch militant groups in the ...

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Time

This short poem by Munir Momen has been translated from Balochi by Sajid Hussain   When the man is born He does only one thing Cutting off time with a scissor Everyone’s surrounding is piled up with the pieces of time But my pile has been blown away by the wind of your separation Just ...

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Baloch fairies vs Baloch jinns and a lot of exorcists

“Do you want to become a Sabzal Samagi?” my father shouted before attempting to burn my poetry books. I understood his frustration as he wanted me to focus on my textbooks, but why on the earth he thought I wanted to become Samagi, who had nothing to do with poetry. Samagi is a Balochi singer, ...

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Baloch leader in EU Parliament: Diplomatic triumph or photo session

  Some people are touting it as one of the biggest diplomatic achievements for the Baloch cause at an international level. Others are calling it another photo session of a Baloch leader with some white politicians. In the photos, Hammal Haider Baloch, the foreign spokesman for the Baloch National Movement, is surrounded by a bunch ...